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31-08-2016

Editorial Note

I hope that you have all had a relaxing and enjoyable summer. As we enter September the preparations for the EuroNGOs AGM and annual conference are in full swing. On behalf of the steering committee, and our host organisation Le Planning Familial, we look forward to welcoming you all to Paris to what promises to be a stimulating, engaging and thought provoking conference.

31-08-2016

First female UN Secretary General more and more unlikely

After the third security council secret ballot vote on the nomination of the next UN Secretary General, chances are shrinking that a woman will take over the seat of Ban ki Moon.

30-08-2016

Our community responds to European consultation about future European Consensus on Development

Over the course of the summer the European Commission organised a public consultation on revising the European Consensus on Development. This revision is aimed particularly at adapting Europe’s development policy in view of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

31-08-2016

Side-events at the 2016 EuroNGOs conference in Paris

This year there was a high interest in side-events and the secretariat received 16 applications for 3 available spaces! Many thanks to those who submitted their proposals. It was not an easy process to make a final choice and the 4 side-events were selected through an assessment undertaken by the secretariat and the conference working group.

31-08-2016

25th Anniversary of our member DSW!

On August 18, 2016, DSW celebrated its 25th anniversary in Hannover, inaugurating our birthday celebration activities that will run throughout the rest of the year. In 25 years, we have expanded our activities from Germany to the worldwide stage to build networks, create long lasting partnerships, and open offices in Europe and across eastern Africa. These relationships ensure that we will continue to push at all levels in our pursuit towards achieving better health outcomes and financing for the world’s most neglected populations.

31-07-2016

Jobs at UNHCR

Senior Protection Assistant (G5) and Statelessness Consultant

20-07-2016

UN Women’s CSAG Communications Consultant

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the National Programme Officer and in cooperation with the National Programme Associate, the Communications Associate, and the International Communications Consultant, the incumbent shall be responsible for the development, management and implementation of a communications strategy aimed at building the public image of UN Women’s Civil Society Advisory Group in Moldova and support the achievement of its advocacy objectives, as well as to support and facilitate communication activities of the UN Women Country Office (CO).

Call for Papers: RHM 49 – Disability and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The forthcoming issue of RHM, which is produced in partnership with CREA, and co-edited with Janet Price and Renu Addlaka, is aimed at shedding light on the population of people with disabilities, focusing on their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This is a subject that is slowly emerging from a private world of neglect and exclusion into public discourse and policy. Submissions accepted between 1 October and 30 November 2016.

Leave No One Behind Online Consultation

In an effort to identify the communities and groups of people most in need of priority access to the resources and programs being mobilised by the UN´s Sustainable Development Goals, the Leave No One Behind Partnership is conducting an online consultation with civil society groups that work with and on behalf of the most marginalised and disadvantaged people, especially those living in impoverished communities and who are at high risk of violence and discrimination.

The Millennium Institute: New tool for designing SDG strategies released

The iSDG is a comprehensive simulation tool that generates country-specific development scenarios to show the implications of policy decisions on a country’s progress towards the SDGs.

O'Connor (WRI),Mackie (ECDPM),van Esveld (WRI),Kim (KEI),Scholz (DIE) and Weitz (SEI): Universality, Integration, and Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Early SDG Implementation in Selected OECD Countries.

This working paper, and the case studies on which it draws, look at and synthesize the challenges facing developed countries as they come to grips with the universality and integration aspects of the 2030 Agenda. The paper examines how countries are beginning to re-evaluate domestic agendas in light of the new global goals, and to reshape those agendas and their domestic priorities in light of their endorsements of the 2030 Agenda. The authors use the lens of “policy coherence for sustainable development” to examine how well the countries studied—Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and Sweden—are tackling the challenges of the new agenda. They ask explicitly how those countries are looking beyond traditional development cooperation to what the SDGs mean for domestic policies across a broad range of sectors and policy areas.

Baumann and Grantner : UN Development System reform: an unnecessary setback

At UN headquarters in New York, a reform process is underway to prepare the UN Development System for the era of sustainability. Following an 18-month dialogue between member states, in the course of which an Independent Team of Advisors (ITA) co-chaired by Klaus Töpfer and Juan Somavia has presented ambitious proposals to manage that change, the reform process will now enter into a second phase of intergovernmental negotiations in late 2016.

Asian Development Bank: Data: The Missing Link in Meeting the SDGs

How can countries know how well they are progressing with the Sustainable Development goals? And how can they determine the best way to channel social services to the people who need them most? The answer is data.

Lourdes Bascary: Implementing the Montevideo Consensus on SRHR

The challenge of complying with the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, adopted at the First Regional Conference on Population and Development held in August 2013 in Uruguay, is huge. It involves the need to create spaces for agreements and coordinated efforts between all state actors involved and, of course, feminist organizations and social movements that supported it and witnessed its birth with great hope. It becomes strategic to make efforts to use the Operational Guide for implementation and follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on population and development in order to improve the conditions for its effective compliance.

Levey and Horoszowski: To Make Real Progress On The SDGs, We Need More Collaboration and Communication

A post on achieving the #SDGs by Katie Levey, PYXERA Global and Mark Horoszowski, MovingWorlds in the Huffington Post.